In 1958, while attending Course of Training for Cartographers in the Australian Regular Army's School of Survey in Balcombe, Victoria, I have used whatever spare time remained each day and weekends after classes to produce a map of Slovakia in four colours as a pet project. The map itself, to look at it, while correct in whatever detail it contains, nevertheless betrays the beginners’ status of a trainee cartographer. What is, in my - perhaps not humble enough opinion - more worthy of display are the pen-and-ink drawings and a few examples of folkloristic Slovak ornamental art, with which I have endeavoured to decorate the borders of the map. My intention was to make it pleasing enough to look at so that at least some of my fellow exiles from Slovakia would hang it on the wall in whatever foreign land they now call their home.